this is a war

i should have known we couldn’t make it out alive i should have known not to start a fight against our shadows

have you ever noticed how hard it is to see your own shadow? you can’t always watch your dark side it’s easier to spy on someone else’s you can see who they are without speaking to them and you can know them so well without ever seeing their face

you can walk all over their darkness and they’d never see a thing because that part of them is behind them it’s part of the past its not really them not right now

its weird that you can see shadows better in the light at night it’s like the world is just one big waking shadow everyone can see it everyone can hold it and everyone knows its power

i realized way too late that i can’t catch my shadow and i can’t catch yours either shadows aren’t meant to be held or studied they’re not meant to be caught or erased

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